[DoughtyOne]

Who needs to establish an international military, when we've got our very own...

[TADSLOS]

The Army of One ads are on Spanish Cable Channels across the country.

[Jethro Tull]

It's all over.

[southern rock]

A few good muslims?

[southern rock]

Army Wants Noncitizens for Military

Just fill up the ranks with Frenchmen so we can surrender and get it over with.

[southern rock]

We like to look like America

That phrase makes me want to puke.

[chachacha]

All Muslims Invited

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[Doomonyou]

Cannon Fodder.

[color_tear]

It looks like few freepers here are too young to even know US military.
US military has always recruited non-citizens. During the Vietnam war, if a GREEN_CARD status youngman is enlisted, he'll automatically becomes a US citizen after the discharge. I know few good people in NYC got their citizenships this way.

[JPJones]

Didn't the Roman empire start doing this...right before it collapsed?

[miamimark]

Next they'll be dishonorably discharged if they can't speaK Spanish.

[gwynapnudd]

We don't have the foresight to require a Swiss mandatory military service and national defense strategy. Instead, it is politically less volatile to hire mercenaries and barbarians to defend the empires borders. Much of the initial fighting in Afghanistan was by "Northern Alliance" forces, which was a PC way of saying tribal warlords and Russian mercs from the Chechen theatre.

[Dialup Llama]

>Maj. Ben Owens, a Pentagon spokesman, said there is no policy requiring recruiters to discuss citizenship.

Who told this guy he could talk? When you sign those elistment papers they know EVERYTHING and if you write something false down it takes about 4 weeks before that cathes up to you in boot camp. This guy made it seem like you could snow the recruiter regarding citizenship.

[SteamshipTime]

So what? The Roman Empire and the British Empire both used foreign nationals! Um, never mind.

Born in Mexico, Rascon was awarded the Medal of Honor -- the highest military honor -- in 1995 for saving the lives of two men by covering them with his own body and taking fire during a 1966 skirmish.

I'm sure Rascon is a very brave man, and I'm sure he deserves a medal, but this is pretty thin for the rarified criteria for the MoH. Note also in whose administration the award was made.

[Billthedrill]

Well, yes, it was in fact one of the foremost reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire. But lying behind that wasn't just that they were using non-Romans (Germans and Huns mostly) but that along with it the Romans became uninterested in participating in their own army (and somewhat later, actually prohibited from doing so). It isn't until that happens to the U.S. that we'll be in a similar fix.

Of course, recruitment rates are going down...

To continue the parallel, just as the Romans did we used to give citizenship to non-citizens as a reward of military service. I'm dating myself, but I personally know several ex-Filipino stewards who are now proud American citizens due to that. But the Romans ceased this policy under, I believe, the emperor Domitian, extending it instead to nearly everyone in the Empire as a reward for simply drawing breath. I shall leave it to others to compare and contrast that to our current immigration policies...

[Snow Bunny]

Thank you JeanS for the information.

[thescourged1]

In my recent service, I encountered and served with Russians, Hungarians, Poles, Salvadorans, Fijians, Dominicans, and Koreans hiding from their mandantory conscription into the ROK Army. A big difference from my first service in the mid-80's. I found it somewhat disconcerting, especially when they would BS amongst themselves in their native languages.

Another example of a foriegn legion would be the German Waffen SS. After that war thinned the ranks of the native-born, the Waffen SS formed entire units made up of foriegn nationals. They included Norwegians, Dutch, French, Danes, Yugoslavs, Latvians, Estonians, Cossacks, Belgians, to name a few.

[Mulder]

If there is a silver lining in this, it's that the tyrants now realizes that most American members of the military will NOT act against US citizens.

Now the question is: why are they recruiting non-citizens?

Most of us know the answer to that question, and it's not a pleasant one.

It's coming, guys, and only a fool would not prepare for the future.

[timestax]

Why do you post so many news reports and never make any comments of your OWN?

[jackbill]

There is certainly nothing new about having "foreigners" in our military. In 1952 I took basic training with a guy who had been in the German army during WWII. He was a Hungarian who was conscripted into the German army.

He enlisted in the U.S. Army as a means of getting his citizenship.